Long Beach DOOH · Pine Avenue · The Pike · Belmont Shore · June 2026
Train-station screens are Long Beach's largest format, from Pine Avenue to Belmont Shore to the I-405 commute: 52 screens at about $0.04 a play. A billboard play runs about $0.63, across 190 screens and 6 formats in total. Booked by the hour, priced per play.
Long Beach billboard and DOOH (digital out-of-home) costs span from a few cents per play on urban panels to premium Pine Avenue, Bixby Knolls and landmark networks. On Blindspot, Long Beach screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.30, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart Long Beach play isn't one screen for a month. It's the right screens at the right hours: the arteries at commute peak, the malls through the afternoon, the nightlife and tourist cores after dark.
Billboard ranking points
Directional 1–10 scores based on zone type and footfall, not audited measurements. Every zone is bookable by the hour on the platform.
The Pine Avenue core carries dense office traffic by day and the city's main dining and going-out crowd after dark.
The Pike Outlets, the Aquarium of the Pacific and the Queen Mary waterfront pack the city's heaviest visitor and weekend traffic.
The Second Street strip in Belmont Shore draws a walkable beach-town crowd of boutiques, cafes and bars by the bay.
The Atlantic Avenue corridor through Bixby Knolls anchors a steady neighborhood retail and dining audience on the north side.
The freeway spine through the city carries the metro's daily commute and the dense port-bound truck and through traffic.
The Cal State Long Beach campus and the busy Traffic Circle interchange pack a dense young daytime and commuting crowd.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot connects bookable digital out-of-home screens across Long Beach onto one map, priced per play and bookable by the hour. Below: real partner screens from the supplied local photo set.
Imagery from media-owner/operator partners. Locations indicative; live availability and per-screen pricing show in the platform.
Formats
From a highway bulletin to a single mall screen, Blindspot puts Long Beach's digital out-of-home and classic OOH formats on one map, each priced per play and bookable by the hour. The formats that matter here:
Large-format LED on highways, bridges and boulevards, motion, dayparting and dynamic triggers.
Pedestrian-scale panels and citylights in high-footfall retail and downtown corridors.
Highway and arterial bulletins built for commuter frequency on the busiest routes.
High-intent shoppers from midday to evening across the city's retail destinations.
Long Beach Transit bus and the Metro A Line light rail screens plus stations and place-based screens with captive dwell.
Landmark and spectacular placements for brand statements in the city's signature locations.
Location insights
Long Beach runs along the Pacific where one of the world's busiest ports meets the waterfront, and it lives on shipping, aerospace and the beach. Mornings load the I-405 and I-710 commute toward Downtown and the Pine Avenue core; evenings pull crowds to The Pike Outlets, the Pine Avenue restaurants and the Belmont Shore strip along Second Street; weekends fill the waterfront by the Queen Mary and the Aquarium of the Pacific. The Grand Prix takes over the streets each spring and the Metro A Line runs the rail spine to LA. Buy the morning commute and the Belmont Shore weekend peak.
The Pike and the main arteries surge 7:30–10 AM and 5–8 PM. Book exactly those hours and your frequency climbs for the same budget.
Bixby Knolls and the city's malls hold heavy footfall from noon to evening, long windows where dwell and shopping intent, not rush, do the work.
Pine Avenue shifts from daytime to social and tourism after dark. Different audience, same screens, swap the creative, not the location.
Location intelligence summary
Long Beach doesn't have one rush hour; it has rotating audiences sharing the same streets. The only buying model that matches that is hourly: pay for the windows when your audience owns the city, skip the ones when it doesn't.
| Objective | Book these zones | Best hours |
|---|---|---|
| Brand launch | Pine Avenue + The Pike | 6–11 PM |
| Commuter frequency | Belmont Shore, The Pike | 7:30–10 AM · 5–8 PM |
| Retail foot traffic | Bixby Knolls, Pine Avenue | 12–8 PM |
| B2B / decision-makers | I-405 / I-710 corridor, The Pike | Weekdays 9 AM–6 PM |
| Tourism & events | Pine Avenue, CSULB | 10 AM–8 PM |
A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Long Beach’s proven peak windows, and typically saves 30%+ versus a flat four-week flight.
Morning commuters read in 2 seconds; evening crowds dwell for minutes. Run different creative by hour on the same screens, even trigger swaps on weather or live data.
Every play is logged. Blindspot campaigns report verified plays and attribution, measured against control groups, not estimated reach.
The zones above already draw a specific buyer: logistics and maritime trade, since the Port of Long Beach moves more than $180 billion in trade a year and sends port trucks straight down the I-405/I-710 corridor the table already flags for weekday B2B reach, and higher education, since Cal State Long Beach enrolls more than 42,000 students, the largest class in the university's history, right in the CSULB zone the table lists for tourism and events.
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Pricing · updated June 2026
Per-play prices, not CPM mysteries. Live per-screen pricing and real-time availability are on every card in the platform; the ranges below reflect typical Blindspot pricing as of June 2026.
| Format | Price per play | Typical presence | Why it works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roadside & freeway digital | from ~$0.30 per play | $100 buys hourly bursts on I-405 and I-710 | drive-time commuter reach |
| Pine Avenue digital spectacular | from ~$0.48 per play | the downtown core | office and going-out dwell |
| Waterfront visitor digital | from ~$0.44 per play | The Pike and the Aquarium blocks | tourist and weekend audiences |
| Belmont Shore retail digital | from ~$0.40 per play | the Second Street beach strip | walkable beach-town crowd |
| Metro A Line screens | from ~$0.33 per play | the light rail spine to LA | walk-up urban commuters |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any Long Beach screen: the format (pricing runs higher on metro A Line screens than on roadside & freeway digital), the zone (Pine Avenue & Downtown carries the highest footfall premium), the daypart (peak commute and evening hours price above the overnight lull), and how far in advance you book, since the busiest zones and formats sell out first.
What a campaign costs
Because you pay per play and schedule by the hour, your budget buys the exposure you actually need, not filler plays, so it works as hard on a big campaign as on a small one, with no minimum. Here's what budgets realistically buy. Live numbers per screen are in the platform.
Commute test
A week of morning and evening bursts on the I-405 corridor into Downtown.
Multi-zone Long Beach push
Pine Avenue, The Pike and Belmont Shore running together across peak dayparts.
Grand Prix flagship
Full Pine Avenue and waterfront saturation timed to the Grand Prix and the summer season.
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, Clear Channel Outdoor, Lamar Advertising, OUTFRONT Media among them, so you're leasing airtime on an existing structure, not erecting a new one.
Specs vary by screen: orientation, resolution and file format differ from one panel to the next. Every screen shows its exact requirements in the platform before you upload, so there's no separate spec sheet to track down before you book.
Yes. Every Long Beach screen on Blindspot is bookable by the hour, with no minimum contract and no retainer. You pick the exact windows, so you can buy the morning commute on The Pike & the Waterfront, the afternoon retail stretch around Bixby Knolls & Atlantic Avenue, or the evening social hours in Pine Avenue & Downtown, and skip everything between. Because you pay per play instead of for a fixed four-week flight, the same budget concentrated into proven peak windows buys more useful frequency than the same money spread across every hour including the overnight ones nobody sees. Availability and the per-play price are visible before you commit, and you can start with one screen and one daypart.
Blindspot puts the bookable digital out-of-home screens across Long Beach on a single map: roadside and boulevard LED, street-level panels and citylights, transit and station screens, mall and place-based displays, and landmark placements, all priced per play and bookable by the hour. That spans zones from Pine Avenue & Downtown through to CSULB & the Traffic Circle. The underlying screens are owned and run by media operators such as Clear Channel Outdoor, Lamar Advertising and OUTFRONT Media, and Blindspot books time on their existing, already-permitted structures rather than reselling a fixed package. You see each screen, its zone, its per-play price and its live availability before committing, so you are choosing specific screens and hours rather than buying an unspecified network bundle.
Often within hours: upload, pass creative pre-check, and digital screens need no printing or installation. Content approval typically averages around two business days across networks.
More than most people expect, because you are buying plays rather than weeks. A $500 budget in Long Beach typically funds a multi-day hourly presence on a high-traffic corridor such as The Pike & the Waterfront, a concentrated burst across the busiest retail and transit screens at peak hours only, or thousands of plays on central urban panels where the per-play price is lowest. At entry prices around $0.30 per play, the arithmetic is straightforward and visible before you commit. What it will not stretch to is 24/7 coverage of a landmark spectacular, and that is the point of hourly buying: concentrate a small budget where and when it is seen instead of thinning it across hours with no audience.
No. Blindspot has no minimums, retainers or platform fees; you can run a focused hourly burst on a single screen or a full multi-zone Long Beach campaign.
How to book
No sales calls, no contracts, self-serve from the map to live creative.
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Open the map, filter Long Beach by zone and format, and select the exact screens and the exact hours your audience is out.
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Every screen shows its price per play and real-time availability before you commit. Build the plan; the running total is always visible.
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Upload creative, pass pre-check, and go live, often within hours. Track verified plays and attribution as the campaign runs.
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